Comments on: Helicopter carrying Iran’s President Raisi crashes

By: Bruce+Hayden.

Bruce+Hayden. — Tue, 21 May 2024 02:56:39 +0000

“Inshallah tends to be a hard taskmaster”

For anyone who didn’t catch it, Inshallah essentially Translates to “If Allah wills it”.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 20 May 2024 22:45:10 +0000

Peter Zeihan’s take makes sense. He states upfront that he doesn’t know. However…
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The simplest explanation would be that the president’s plane simply had an unfortunate accident at a very inconvenient time. Most of Iran’s aircraft are Franken-zombie constructs, a product of successful Western sanctions limiting Iran’s ability to get new technology and parts. Pre-1979 Western equipment is kept alive with a mix of indigenous knock-off components and whatever schlock can get in from Russia and China. Russian and Chinese aircraft and parts are often second-or-third-hand purchases from intermediaries looking to avoid sanctions…

Bad weather, bad fog, and bad parts make for good chances for an accident. We might learn that more nefarious things were afoot, but there’s certainly not a lot of reason now to jump to that conclusion.

–Peter Zeihan

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:04:37 +0000

Turkey and Egypt haven’t done badly, though neither are among the world’s affluent countries (Turkey is close). Indonesia has also had satisfactory performance (fuel exports therefrom accounting for about 5% of nominal GDP). The rest of the Muslim world does tend to underperform absent a natural resource bonanza (and, in the case of Iraq, even with one).

By: J.J.

J.J. — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:42:08 +0000

“Their poverty has a lot more to do with an ass-backwards attitude towards education and science, along with a supremely repressive ideological creed.”
– O’Bloody

And that ass-backwards attitude has something to do with the fatalistic philosophy of Allah willing or inshallah. Repressive? Yes. The tenets of Islam are meant to utterly control the adherents. A pretty toxic brew of politics and religion.

As Niketas Choniates points out, the Chinese and Indian influence in Malaysia is a big difference in their economic performance. Countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Burundi are examples of oil rich Muslim countries due to their large oil reserves per capita.

By: Mike+K

Mike+K — Mon, 20 May 2024 17:56:10 +0000

Inshallah tends to be a hard taskmaster and has a lot to do with the poverty of Muslim countries not blessed with oil reserves.

Neville Shute’a novel “Round the bend” is about running a small airline in Muslim countries.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 20 May 2024 17:14:39 +0000

Butcher of Tehran

https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/world-news/no-sign-of-life-as-crews-reach-mangled-helicopter-that-was-carrying-iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi/

I understand many Iranians are happy he’s dead. Also this can have a destabilizing effect. Iran isn’t do well as is, and it’s a theocracy claiming Allah’s support. That didn’t work out well for the Butcher.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:54:23 +0000

The simplest explanation is that they were flying in mountainous terrain in thick fog and hit something. As J.J. said, “inshallah navigation.” The pilot says it’s dangerous. The leader says, “Inshallah, we will arrive safely.” They didn’t.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:38:45 +0000

Brooklyn, check the comments at XeroHedge. It’s a three way race among Israel, the CIA and an internal rival. They’ve already lapped accident.

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Mon, 20 May 2024 13:55:57 +0000

I am sure some idiot white kids in Brooklyn think that Israel did it.

By: Karmi

Karmi — Mon, 20 May 2024 13:08:43 +0000

His Karma finally caught up to him. Saw a “last” pic of him looking worried—w/o even having to see his eyes, as they were looking out a window at the fog surrounding him.

Too bad it wasn’t a plane filled w/ Iran’s Top 100…